Hi everyone!
First I have to thank those who brought up filling a tube sock with rice to make a heat pad to use while pumping. I got a similar “rice sock” heat pad on Amazon, which is very nice for the shoulders, but doesn’t wrap around my cylinder (1.75” diameter) very evenly or easily. It’s great as a pre-pump/PE warm up, but wrapping a cylinder, it kinda sucks.
So, I started to fill a tube sock with rice and played with density and length of the sock with my cylinder. In doing so I just “invented” a really cool, very easy to make, “tube sock cylinder heater”! Using a needle and thread, I managed to sew the rice sock into a loop with almost no gap at the seam I created, and the tube can easily be “inserted” into the donut rice sock. I made two of these and they completely cover over my cock (I’m at 8-8.25”inches in the tube now).
**If you know how to sew at all, this will be very easy for you. If you don’t, look it up and it’s not hard!! Believe me, it’s worth the craft time spent on this, it’s revolutionizing my pump routine!!
Time spent: 15-30 minutes per sock
Start filling your sock. After a little bit, lay it on a table and try to flatten it out and make the rice even. I got the rice thickness at about 1” to 1.5”inches consistently.
Take your clean cylinder and lay it over the sock on one end and see if you can fold it over the tube. If you do a “flop” kind of movement the rice stays put in the sock and folds over the tube nicely.
Keep adding rice until you’re at the length needed to fully wrap around your tube, and so the rice thickness in the sock stays the same too.
I pinched the open end of the sock right where the other end meets it when it’s wrapping the tube.
****(Don’t try to sew with the tube still in contact with the sock! Ditch the tube once you have the sock length figured out.)****
I then started to sew across the sock in a straight line to the other side. This completely seals the sock.
Cut off the slack of whatever part of the sock is not filled with rice but leave about a 1/2”inch overhang; in other words, don’t cut it too close to the seam!
Next, I fold the sock in half so the toe-end part meets the seam I just created and stretch the toe part so that it matches the seam end to end.
***Try to keep the slack down to a minimum on the toe-side, no more than a half an inch. If you can’t sew with that little slack, adjust for this when getting the length of the sock right before sewing 1st seam.**
Sew through the original seam and pull the needle through the toes side. Create a second seam from end to end.
This further strengthens the closure of the sock and connects the ends together.
Viola you are done!! Make another one and you’ll have two perfect tube sock heater donuts for perfect contact of the rice sock and cylinder. No gaps! And, it’s very very easy to hold! They just stay on the tube on their own, all you have to do is hold it up (or rest it on a surface if that’s how you pump.). I only pump standing up so I hold it up and out.
It’s like I made a “condom” for my pump cylinder out of rice socks. They slip on very easily and you don’t have to do much once they are on.
I originally tried the tying-end-to-end method for this but the knot is very thick and leaves a big gap where there’s no rice to make contact with the tube. I wanted end-to-end perfect contact of rice on tube. This sewing method allows for that if you so desire.
Have fun everyone!